TN anti-death penalty group calls Pike's failed execution 'predictable'
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After the failed execution of Christa Pike in Tennessee, Sister Helen Prejean, the Catholic religious at the center of the film Dead Man Walking, joined the growing choir of voices against the death penalty in America. (ANSA)
The case of a murderer who survived her attempted execution has fueled the debate about the death penalty in the USA again. The woman is apparently still in critical condition. Her lawyer speaks of various failures. By Giselle Ucar.[more]]>
The Memo: Tennessee debacle revives bitter debate over death penalty
The death penalty is back center stage in national politics in the most macabre of circumstances. Christa Pike, 50, who admits to the gruesome 1995 murder of classmate Colleen Slemmer, is in critical condition in the hospital after Tennessee’s attempt to execute her Wednesday evening failed. The attempted execution had only proceeded at the last…
TN anti-death penalty group calls Pike's failed execution 'predictable'
MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Wednesday's failed attempt by the state of Tennessee to execute convicted murderer Christa Pike has outraged anti-death penalty groups, calling the "botched" execution a repeat of what happened to inmate Tony Carruthers in May. Pike, who is 50, was sentenced to die for the 1995 murder of Colleen Slemmer, 19, in Knoxville. [...]
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